skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
interesting image recognition. wonder what they are using it for. especially for the huge amount of photos on flickr.
also what if the gis info is lost?
Third-party sales is about 39% of Amazon's units sold[0]. The actual value of third-party sales is probably a more useful and informative measure, but I can't seem to find that information anywhere. All I can find is this outdated (2008) report that vaguely says it's "around 40%"[1].

[0]http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2013/01/30/ama...

[1]http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee204/Publications/Amazon-EE35...
Nothing beats working out to the 7 Minute Workout musical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LezARmLDu6U
This is purely speculative, but for me it looks like Larry Page may be preparing Google towards becoming a more privacy-aware company that you can entrust with information.

Why do I think this?

Trend: I think that 2014 has led to consumers becoming more actively aware of privacy. Google will be aware of consumer behaviour changing in this space. I have noticed in my general non-techie personal circle that people are far more protective of personal data and changing their online behaviour compared to two years ago. I think this is Google's current Achilles heel.

Tech: Google has so far got the best track record of security implementations which are open to anyone using their end-to-end platforms. They could seriously leverage this capability as a differentiator if it wasn't for the perception that they 'snoop' on its users.

Mission: In contrast to this Trend Larry Page has always been enthusiastic about a big vision of how consumers can benefit from sharing information to the right people, for example in the health space. At I/O 2013 this was a big topic for him: so many people's health could be improved if they would be able to comfortably share their personal data with the right people. The true value of this has massive potential.

Indications for a Pivot: Eric Schmidt is currently touring Europe, stating that Google doesn't 'read' email and does not make its money from analyzing your personal data.
In the end Google's best bet may be to try to transform itself into a personal, trusted data company.
Link to the original research article from ACSM:
http://journals.lww.com/acsm-healthfitness/Fulltext/2013/050...
Yes, this is correct. The study itself -- if not the NYT coverage of it -- mentions the workout is designed for people with sedentary lives and it should be repeated 2-3 times to see results in people in better physical condition.
Stop wasting trillions of hours of your time, humanity
A number of Revolv's electrical engineers were not part of the acquisition, and didn't receive job offers to migrate with the team Google/Nest. (I assumed because Google planned on shutting down the project and most of their production is done in Asia)

However if anyone is interesting in hiring a wicked-smart (former) Revolv electrical engineer/hardware engineer who also has software engineer experience, let me know. They will be relocating to Bay Area anyway - my email is in the last line of my profile.
Nobody has found strange how two individuals with apparently common interests met? French lessons? For such cultivated men? Weird...
>We should be very worried about this, something is not right.

Should we be worried?

We base our assumptions about what 'right' is, in this case what a universe containing the presence of life should look like (colonies and trash littered about,) on a single example of intelligent civilization (our own) with no knowledge at all of how normative that is, or what the actual technological capabilites of a truly interstellar civilization would look like.

We can extend our own dependence on fossil fuels exponentially and come up with the Kardashev Scale, then expect to find evidence of interstellar empires burning stars as fuel, or come up with clever math like the Drake Equation and feel confident that life should be abundant - but to quote Han Solo, it's all simple tricks and nonsense. We don't even know enough to know whether or not we should be worried.
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This doesn't seem like it would print pretty to the DOM. From the console, you can just console.log a JSON fine. It's when you try to write to the DOM nicely is where I cannot find a good solution.
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> ... spent too much effort trying to replicate sysv for compatibility reasons ...

This is wrong, too. Only upstart, systemd, and runit include any form of System V rc compatibility. (It's worth noting that no alternative system has implemented System V init compatibility.) None of the others do.
THIS makes the most sense to me of any of the explanations on this page.
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Thanks for the response! I've always wanted to have math explained to me by a 21-24 year old that spent too much time with Rudin and Axler in undergrad.
I know nothing about cars, but I heard from someone who worked there that for some parts, they now have to send half of them back to Volkswagen because they don't meet specifications anymore, and that bureaucracy is on the rise.

Just hearsay, so take this with a grain of salt.
A simple signal would be more shares bid than offered at the inside market. Imagine a market with 1000000 shares bid at $4 and 100 shares offered at $4.01, it's more likely to tick up than down in the very near-term. This isn't tradable though since the predictions aren't large enough to overcome the spread and you can't expect to join the 1000000 share bid and trade when it's good (the 1000000 shares that made you think it was going to move up all have to trade or cancel for you to trade, not looking so great anymore).

Real HFTs use other features of the order book, movements in related products (maybe a move in oil futures in the last minute impacts the price of an airline stock in the next 10 seconds, etc.), and so on. The signals are not really that complicated, but competitors eventually converge on knowing the same signals and compete them out of existence/profitability. Also, how you execute around your prediction matters just as much if not more.

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2534976 and http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2536492 have some more examples. http://www.decal.org/file/2945 also has some ideas for old signals that probably won't work anymore.
I suppose that you'll also need to use only open-source operating systems. And motherboards, memory, storage, CPUs, and GPUs. And even then you'll want to audit the supply chain for the computer manufacturer, to make sure that there are no counterfeit open source components being used. Of course that doesn't guarantee that there are no bugs in the implementation of any of the above. Or that you don't have a faulty component. So to develop confidence, you'll have to test against multiple independent implementations. Which you need to do anyway, even in the case that one link in the chain is closed.
I doubt the FIDE-PCA rift really mattered. The FIDE champ at the time was Karpov, who 1) had nowhere near the brand name recognition that Kasparov did, and 2) was not even close to Kasparov's strength. It's not even clear Karpov would agree to such a match even if it had been proposed. He would have most likely lost miserably against Deep Blue, and he probably knew it too.
Is this what you're looking for?
http://www.simplecpu.com/Binary.html
Unfortunately it's difficult to pull off a model where users can pay to turn off ads because it drastically reduces the per-user value of the remaining ad impressions.
What always gets me is how these beings of superior technology manage to evade all of our detection systems, yet are spotted by regular eyesight.

They have amazing ships, able to do these seemingly physics-defying feats, yet they point beams of light at things we could easily detect without resorting to such wavelengths.

They have antigrav, yet they need to land and rest on tripods, leaving indentations in the ground (when they're not too busy making crop circles, that is).

If you're able to use fold travel to get around relativistic limitations, I should think that avoiding or camouflaging emissions in certain wavelengths would be child's play by comparison. We already have a primitive form of it ourselves.

Thus, working under the reasonable assumption that they are able to evade detection, sightings would indicate that they are not trying to remain hidden, but instead have travelled countless light years in order to spook rural families rather than opening up interstellar relations.

I wonder if their home planet knows how their tax dollars are being spent?
Full transcript of the quote OP was referencing (at 1:07:44 as indicated by visionscaper)

"I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I were to guess at what our biggest existential thread is, it's probably that. So, we need to be very careful with artificial intelligence. I am increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight at the institutional, maybe at the national and international - level, just to make sure we don't to something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon. You know - you know all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he's like, yea, sure you can control the demon... didn't work out."
Another similar odd construct: WPP, Wire and Plastic Products. An ex-Saatchi advertising executive bought a 30% share for $600k in 1985 as apparently that was a good way to start a global company.

Now the WPP Group has 150,000+ employees, all in advertising. If you thought Google bought up many companies, look at this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPP_plc#Principal_subsidiaries....

When I visited some months ago, the intranet's today's news was mostly a list of companies they acquired today.
Hybrid engines? if you can make the thing move cool for the last couple of miles that's a massive range of stealth.
IMHO that's because ad targeting and ad profiles are still extremely crude. It sounds like you're talking about retargeted ads -- you look at a product and it seems to follow you around afterwards. The tech is too dumb to know you already bought it, but on average it's pretty effective.
Poland is going to be a very interesting country to watch over the next 10-20 years. It has one of the fastest growing economies in Europe, a sizable population, and geopolitically speaking, a very long memory. Tensions with Russia are going to mount in the coming decades as Poland's economy grows, and Russia's slows down. I doubt they'd come to blows, least of all in the near future. But Poland is going to gear up, just in case.

A lot of this will come from Poland's desire to reduce its dependence on the US. Poland and the US have cooperated, militarily and politically, more reliably than most European countries have. But in light of recent events in Eastern Europe, the US is starting to look like a less-than-reliable backstop.
Also with drugs you have an option to go cold turkey which is what works for many addicts (well, often with some pharmacological help in first stages). With food you don't really have that option which makes it more difficult.
That is why one obvious approach to try is to go cold turkey on some foods which are causing the addiction.

I mean we certainly need a lot more research on that but it seems the reason people do well on low-carb high fat or high protein is that they eliminate what caused the addiction for them.

If that's the case then any research which controls for amount of calories is missing the point of what is actually helpful to people as it already assumes the final goal (having people eating less). It is still interesting question if calorie is in fact a calorie but this question isn't in my mind the important one when it comes to solving obesity problem.

More interesting is discovering what behaviors (including both restricting certain foods as well as life style habits like many meals vs few meals, eating breakfast or not etc. etc.) help people to actually stick to calorie deficit while feeling reasonably well during the process.
I just used Sage to find all sets of 1 quadrillion positive integers that have the same product and sum. Feel free to try that in Mathematica.
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anyone who took a quick look at this and didn't read the whole thing, i highly recommend it... i felt like i was reading Game of Thrones - Car Edition. What a fantastic story I never knew about!
This is known as what happens when you're in a hole and think you'll get out by digging harder. That said, their PR machine is incredible.

Admittedly, I'd like to be in a hole where no matter what you still rake in billions, but they really are not very productive for all that wealth and talent.
That helps, thanks. But while that's an explanation that may make a certain amount of intellectual sense, it still doesn't make any intuitive sense. Perhaps if I'd worked with basis views a lot more, then it would become intuitive, but I haven't. The nice thing about the spinning signal idea is I can visualize the speaker, and it makes some intuitive sense that if I spin it at a given frequency, and the speaker cone's average movement is zero, then the signal has no content at that frequency.
It's hilarious how every single section with a code snippet on that page repeats the huge cookie disclaimer text.
So they already admitted it. Why is nobody doing anything about it? What's the next step after learning aliens exist?
Google still has a high-altitude program in R&D.

http://www.google.com/loon/
In Europe (and I am pretty sure in the US as well) paramedics and hospice nurses have access to psychological help and support if something on the job demands it.
Funny how UFO incidents diminished with advent of cellphone video/photo recording technology.
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I clean out my belongings at the end of every month, and it is surprisingly refreshing to see how much unused stuff has been cleared out of my home.

But I guess it's easier to live a lifestyle as a 24-year-old where I can pack up and move to a new location easily... I imagine it's more difficult for older people that have more items of sentimental value.
I tried this about a year ago and blogged my results:

http://www.developingandstuff.com/2013/09/50-days-of-scienti...
Get them to use OpenOffice or LibreOffice instead of MS Office, as most attacks will be directed towards vulnerabilities in MS Office.
Yeah, I worked in a company that had a legitimate reason to be able to save state (the local file system) from flash before storage solutions inside of flash (around 4 to 6 iirc) a COM injection bug was used to access the filesystem... after I saw what could be done (COM injection), I promptly disabled flash on my own computers.
Sure, but the hard thing to accept intuitively, for me, is the existence of an alternative representation of a function, particularly for functions with require intricate, data-heavy descriptions to express. It's kinda crazy that you can combine sinusoids such that they look like an arbitrary function; it's only slightly more crazy that there is a way to calculate what those sinusoids are. My intuition is also violated by the fact that you can go back and forth between these representations losslessly. It would seem to me that some functions, even simple ones like a line, would require a great explosion of information to represent as sinusoids. A function requiring two numbers to describe now requires infinite numbers to describe, in the linear case!
I can also weld, and never finished the degree. I've played some with CF, and rather than build one, I bought a CNC mill.

My son had an idea, so I learned injection molding (smallworks.com).

Companies I've helped start have both cratered (Vivato) and had successful exits (Wayport).

I'm 52.
Before the technology of rocketry became commonplace, UFO sightings were of mysterious blimps and airships, and the inhabitants claimed to be from Mars or Venus. Before the grey alien became a common trope, many aliens were reported as obviously humanlike in appearance. They often seem to use recognizable things like computers with buttons and viewscreens, sometimes rockets.

It's strange how not alien these aliens and their technology always seem to be.
LOL

http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279...
IMO Sundar has executed brilliantly at the things he's been tasked with so far, so I'm excited to see him take on more responsibility.
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I call bullshit on this one. The US M1 Abrams has a 1500HP gas turbine engine. To develop 1500HP means producing at least another 1500HP in waste heat, if not more like 3000-5000HP.

An electric drive system would alleviate a lot of that. For range, make it a series hybrid. It can recharge batteries en route, then operate in a "cool/stealth" mode, so that it can cool down and lie in wait under camouflage and in an enfilade position peeking over a ridge. For maximum stealth, we might want an electromagnetic accelerator instead of a cannon. Such a system would probably want to sacrifice physical protection from anything deadlier than high explosive artillery shells and machine guns for greater stealth.

While we are at it, why do we have to have massive armor and cannons? What if such vehicles could operate as "drone carriers" and launch swarms of drones which are designed as combined surveillance platforms and guided munitions? If you take something like an Abrams M1 tank and land a shaped charge on its main cannon and its tracks, then it just becomes a badly camouflaged machine gun nest. Once immobilized and de-fanged, its machine guns would then be easy to take out. Such drone-missiles can easily out-range the most sophisticated main battle tank gun.

EDIT: The lethality of weapons vs. armor has caused dramatic swings in the tactics of hand to hand weapons on the battlefield. It only makes sense that the increasing lethality of computerized weaponry would cause this to happen for armored vehicles. Knights in armor plate used to rule the field. Firearms made personal steel plate armor obsolete. It used to be that high velocity cannon and massive armor ruled the battlefield. Now it's detection and situational awareness.
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Zero sum markets are not really a thing. The normal phrase is 'zero sum game'. Buying and holding stocks is not a zero sum game - you make money. Trading stocks between speculators where the trading commissions exceed the dividends and long term market appreciation is a zero sum game. Same market, different games.
Yep, absolutely. More than "any".

What are you after?
This is always the subjective thing. For me, "easy-to-use drag and drop interface" is normally a deal-killer. The more you make me switch from keyboard to mouse, the less I am going to use the tool.

A project management tool should be able to glean everything it needs to know about what the developers are doing from the source control system. If I have to write a commit message AND update the task in some other system, I'm not likely to find the tool useful.
> It won't necessarily give you a proof that your result...

That is precisely the point.
Blatant clone of a vastly more concisely written (read: not padded using a thesaurus) article by Ivan Krstic

https://radian.org/notebook/porsche
Nice try, IBM.
Have you tried it? (In the Pali canon of Buddhism, different levels are referred to as "jhānas.")
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To misquote The Princess Bride: "This device isn't bricked. It's just mostly bricked. There's a difference."

The device is still there, and it will talk, there's just no matching driver in the system for it now.

So you add PID=0x0000 to your existing driver (I think this is just an edit to the INF file on Windows) and sniff the device to see if it's one you've likely (semi) bricked, and make the attempt. You own the VID, so this operation should be safe in your namespace.

Brickness is a measure of the user's ability and motivation to restore a device. I've worked on systems where you have to unsolder really tiny devices in order to unbrick. It's a continuum of inconvenience, really. To most users, the evil FTDI driver made a brick because it was beyond their skill to do the repair (hey, you can write a driver for PID=0x0000 any time you want to, oaky?)
That's good to know. As someone with a VERY solid grasp of SQL, I found R to be baffling (though I've only tinkered with it a few times).
Yeah I do. Although it is pretty tame on the spectrum. Certainly it is a more reasonable speculation than alien contact (low hurtle to jump).

For the record I don't believe this is the case. I do reserve the right to adknowledge it as a possibility with a small posterior probability in anticipation of additional priors.
I think your bar is a bit high. Standard milling tolerences are almost 50x higher than what you state. Casting is much worse. The point is that additive printing won't take over the metal world any time soon but it does have some advantages. Try to machine a hollow sphere for example. There are plenty of shapes that can't be traditionally machined.
I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, but this can't work over HTTPS. The message is fully encrypted end-to-end and Verizon Wireless can't do anything to alter the content without destroying the whole message.

Seems like a few people know this, lots of talk about SSL & TLS, but I don't think anybody has mentioned it explicitly.
> Now imagine the capabilities (if you can) of what an alien species only 10,000 years more advanced than us might have. What about 100,000 years? 1 Million ? Their technology would be like magic to us - completely unimaginable ... you know like travelling across entire galaxies in mere hours, teleporting through walls, having invisible craft, shooting paralyzing beams, erasing memories of (some) human abductees etc.

And yet, they use technology that's similar to what the current era's science fiction talks about, use all that power to anally probe redneck farmers and abduct people from the woods, and they can't even get the memory wipes right all the time.
Very interesting read! Does any one have more examples for B2B companies?
Things humans do regularly likely violate what a wild orangutan would consider the laws of physics, like putting a human inside a five-inch flat piece of glass.
When I first came across the Sage Wikipedia page and especially the »Software packages contained in Sage« section [1] I immediately wondered how well that approach works. I admittedly don't know anything about the way Sage is build but you get the impression that they glued together many existing specialized solution to form one comprehensive solution. And while every piece is a mature solution and many people invested years of effort to build them, I also experienced over and over again how hard it is to integrate heterogeneous components. And that raises the obvious question whether it is more effective to integrate mature but heterogeneous solutions or to build a less mature but homogeneous solution at the added costs of reinventing the wheel.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_(mathematics_software)#Sof...
Thanks! Obviously on top of free White Papers, case studies etc., freebies could play a role. E.g. NewRelic RC Helicopters or the Data Nerd T-Shirts they are giving out for new subscribers, even before subscribing to any paid plan.
Great example. Thanks again
The fire phone was a completely unnecessary waste of resources - I wonder how much that contributed to this dreary news.
Why? Why does apple allow them to do this?
A mass sighting - fairly common in UFO history (http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/chasing-ufos/a...) - would provide plenty of vantage points, cross-checking, etc.
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