skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered if it is possible to teach such subdivisions by simply including them as metadata and then using the same metadata as primes. So for example, you'd train your RNN on a big dataset of Bach, Mozart, etc, where each line of music is prefixed "BACH |" and then when you went to generate samples, you'd pass in as initial state "BACH |". Presumably the RNN would gradually learn that "BACH |" samples sound different from "MOZART |" samples and would adjust the conditional probabilities appropriately. Similarly if you wanted specific time periods. (And if the style metadata tends to be forgotten even with the LSTM, the metadata tag could be reinjected every _n_ steps.)
What do you mean by normal clothing? Do you go running in jeans?
> "to justify themselves"

Is it really impossible that they genuinely though you might be in danger?
The question I answered was: "How is this even possible?" (emphasis in the original). The implication seems to be that it should not be possible for the removal of a `while(False)` statement to break working code, presumably based on the assumption that it can't do anything. Yet that is a false assumption, and lots of bugs are based on assumptions that seem true yet, strictly speaking, don't have to be. I provided an existence proof that it IS possible and one minimal example that the assumption that such code literally can't play any role in whether code works or not is incorrect.
> I have trouble figuring out a sport that I can do regularly to improve my health.

Swimming is all the good parts of running with ~none of the bad parts. Requires a pool, which isn't as "free" as running.

Rock climbing and weightlifting are both pretty good too.
Reminds me of when canononical did something similar with ubuntu and extended searching your applications to searching merchandise on amazon and other stores. It's really funny when you open the start menu equivalent at work to launch the terminal* and as you type "t" you get to see items you can buy - one of them being "The Simpsons". Genius.

* before you complain I use the start menu to launch the terminal: I never remember ubuntu shortcuts, it's meta+t on my system
I don't remember criticism of Player in particular, but I do remember the general criticism of strength training for golfers. John Daly in particular was held up as being a prime example of someone who was all power, no touch. Strength training was not Daly's problem, though...
How can I upvote this to heaven? Made my day :-)

I could write that I spilled my coffee, except I don't drink coffee.
I'm assuming "high DPI screens" was the intention.
The most interesting are the fields in the headers tab (machine id, resolution...)
Still seems like there should be an approach like this to build mobile and desktop? TideKit (split off from Appcelerator Titanium) was giving it a shot but I think might have dissolved.
Fiber is the hint about what this really means. Capital intense businesses like ISPs or car companies are expensive to operate and the financials would drag down Google.

In this model, the big shareholders get to dilute risks in these ventures, while retaining the ability to exponentially increase their personal wealth.
Google (or now, Alphabet) is an less diversified Berkshire Hathaway with tons of R&D expenditures.

I think it's likely that tax benefits from the reorg are the biggest reason for the stock price increases. But it also appears likely that there will be an offering of Alphabet stock in some form so it's curious to see how the value will break out.
The problem is that Apple is always right but has contradicted itself.
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"Altera's new hardcoded floating point-enhanced FPGAs. Too bad I have no idea how much they cost."

Probably in the same ballpark as current high end Altera chips: over $30k. If you need a thousand of them for your datacenter, think about what kind of ASIC you could design for $30 millions.
Or think about how many Titan X cards you can buy for $30k :)
> I'm still the same person.

Are you, though? What would your younger, broker (perhaps more idealistic?) self think if they met modern-day wealthy-you? Would they like you? Everyone changes as they age. For most people, they become some variations of more mature, more cynical, more conservative, and more set in their ways.
Are you detained or do they just stop you and ask if you were being chased/are ok?
Don't confuse my statement of "Realms of known physics" with "The Standard Model". And i'm fully aware of the state of neutrino physics, and what is and isn't known.

My point is that this is a technical milestone, not a knowledge-of-physics one - we have seen plenty of evidence for neutrino flavour changing, at much better precision than the current results for NOvA, just not in this particular experiment - yet.
According to their paper [0], the entire vaccum vessel is considered disposable and might survive only a few months. (It's also explicitly an experimental reactor meant to study neutron radiation damage, so they're hardly claiming it's a practical commercial design. But I think you're right, that the problem is basically unsolved).

This allows the vacuum vessel to be replaced quickly,
mitigating first wall survivability concerns, and permits a
single device to test many vacuum vessel designs and
divertor materials.

[...] The replaceable vacuum vessel is made of corrosion-
resistant Inconel 718, which maintains high strength and
corrosion resistance at elevated temperatures.

[...] Little research has been done regarding how Inconel
718 responds to the irradiation environment of a fusion
device [82]. However, studying the response of components to
fusion neutron effects is part of the motivation for
ARC. [...] It is unknown if Inconel 718 would behave
similarly in a fusion neutron spectrum, but one expects the
vacuum vessel would survive for at least 6-12 months (15-30
DPA).

[0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3540
The issue here is that individuals knowingly destroyed evidence with the intent to obstruct investigations.

This issue is that they now have the tools to charge you with obstructing an investigation that hadn't even begun yet, when you took the action.

We all understand how this scenario is obstruction:

1. -Investigation Begins-

2. Police:We would like to see #source_of_potential_evidence.

3. Person:Sure thing. -deletes #source_of_potential_evidence-. Oh, sorry guys, I don't have that.

This is what happened:

1. Person:Oh, this doesn't look good. I don't think I want to keep this on my computer. -deletes #source_of_potential_evidence-

2. -Investigation Begins-

3. Police:We would like to see #source_of_potential_evidence.

4. Person:Sorry guys, I don't have that.

If there is not yet an investigation, it's not yet evidence. How can you be held responsible for destroying evidence if it's not yet evidence?

This isn't about maintaining the integrity of investigations. It's about giving prosecutors the ability to get people when they otherwise couldn't.
I think direct threading is usually implemented just by reducing the indirection another level,

e.g.

goto *lp

rather than

goto **lp

You could implement an interpreter with generated JMP instructions, which might be called direct-threading, but at least in the forth world, where most jumps are to nested user-defined subroutines, subroutine-threading using JSR instructions is typically used.
I've never seen this faking it thing going on. Maybe it is a USA problem? I have seen plenty of bad managers etc. But none were pretending they were experts in anything technical. Rather they would pretend they knew everything about running a business.
If you're running for exercise rather than racing is there anything wrong with running in jeans?
Those mercenary slaves were actually a big part of why the Ottomans did so well to start with. When they boys were taken they were given exams and the 10% that did the best became bureaucrats in a sort of version of the Chinese system. Exam based bureaucracy is a Big Deal when you're competing with aristocracies.

But eventually offices became hereditary and the normal sort of Chinese late dynastic rot set in.
I would be surprised if it was more than 1% of liquid net worth (i.e., trivial).
fyi - Red Butler (Z competitor) responds.
http://prn.to/1IUibKq
My comparison with the LHC was in particular to reporting "first collisions" - whilst an impressive technical accomplishment, the physics measurements come later. There is nothing 'lowly' about measuring any of the fundamental parameters.
I'd love to know where those per-AS latency graphs come from.

Edit: Oh, from RIPE ATLAS!
> Is there any reason I should be off by 3 orders of magnitude?

No. I was - I was thinking km/hr rather than km/sec, and 10 km/hr was clearly far too low. My error.

10K km/sec is 0.03c. It's not a velocity that will remain in earth orbit.
The main path going forward in improving Markov chains is expanding the individual "unit" that are selected by these chains. Current Markov chains only randomly select words to string together into semi-coherent thoughts, but what if they instead randomly select paragraphs, or even entire chapters? This will promote large-scale structure within the book, and ensure the plot will always be varied and engaging.

I hope that your grandchildren's Bachelor of Science would train them in curating brilliant works of art that can then be feed into the Markov chain and perform the one-dimensional random walk.
If sugar and other sweeteners weren't so dirt cheap, maybe people wouldn't eat a dozen donuts for breakfast and maybe if these sugary "treats" went back to being treats instead of staples of the American, possibly other, diets we wouldn't be in this predicament. I agree that sugar is quite addictive. The craving for a pizza or ice cream can be overwhelming for me. Some of the food manufacturers in my opinion should almost be regulated like the tobacco industry. They do the same thing. Just no one wants to talk about favorite sugary food or drink causing ailments, it is like the greatest secret everyone knows.
> Before we move to CS for all, can we at least solve the problem of Computer Literacy for all!?

I see no reason that they can't be tackled concurrently!
And yet, you posed this on the internet, sharing your IP & MAC addresses with several companies.
Like 'AnimalMuppet explains, the tricky part is to get close and not get hit, given that you have to maintain the speed difference to extract the energy. Also, I don't think the process will be energetically-viable; you still need to get close to orbital velocity yourself to be able to catch the stuff even if you didn't intend for the garbage can to stay in orbit, and if you do want it in orbit, navigating it around will most likely burn orders of magnitude more energy that you'll be able to retrieve.
Someone from Google, er, Alphabet didn't read PG's essay: https://abc.xyz
You learn touch typing by having something to type, not by having it drilled into at school. There are better things to teach.
I used to do martial arts and group exercise to keep myself motivated. Music also helps a lot. You just have to find something that 'gives you energy', or with a beat that matches your preferred pace. Good opportunity to expose yourself to genres of music you wouldn't normally listen to :)
I don't think the parent comment should be downvoted. It makes some good points, even if you disagree with them.

I think you're misunderstanding what "war-bringer" means in this case. It's not America vs. Japan: it's the governments vs. the people. Both the American government and the Japanese government brought war, but the people of the countries (especially Japan) were forced to suffer for their governments' decisions.
> Each technologist has a choice whether or not to work on these systems. The answer should always be NO.

Thank you for putting it this way. People come up with all kinds of rationalizations to work on such things in exchange for a little more money.

They need to be shamed.
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This is actually a reddit post, but i was really suprised at how good the guy did it... He's like only 19.... https://www.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/3ggyfd/my_first_att...
Well, they require me to identify myself (by name) and what I'm doing so it seems to me that the stated justifications are post-hoc. But no, I've never been detained for more than a couple minutes.
I really like Microsoft lately. Whois suggest that it isn't their domain though (but they could be just playing it safe..)
Ubuntu does the same by default if you do not disable it via Privacy.

Not suprised that MS does this, however the sad part is for a simple search, there are literally thosaunds of bytes exchanged
Is the knowing, willful firebombing of solely civilian targets ever justifiable, regardless of who brings the fire against whom?

From TFA:

“Is it the enemy’s or one of ours?”

“What difference does it make? Stupid murderers.”
Chrome has a hamburger menu, even on a huge desktop screen with plenty of room for a proper menu. OSX has an excellent universal menu which, due to consistent placement, behaviour, and content, provides a high level of usability. Chrome's hamburger menu duplicates some - but not all - of its functionality, and includes some bonus functions not available in the main menu at all. It also has a submenu named - and you might want to check this yourself, because it's pretty hard to believe - "More tools".

The main menu would be absolutely fine on its own; I think the hamburger menu is present because it's present on Windows, which - of course - doesn't have a universal menu. Still, I'm not letting Google off the hook here. These flagrant abuses of usability are things that the average undergrad should be able to identify, yet one of the biggest companies in the world can't? Disappointing.
Any indication that this is actually Microsoft?
This doesn't seem to be Microsoft. If it is, they're going through great lengths to hide it:

http://www.instra.com/en/whois/whois-result/abc_wtf
Redis: Crystal vs Ruby vs Node vs C vs Go vs Java
I don't see how it does that.
The first two words of the article are "In 2012" and I think that carries over to the paragraph you quoted.
Did Google effectively just do a rotate operation on a red-black tree for their organization?
I use a unique password and even a burner email, and a phone number that I update every 8 weeks for my banking website.

It's taken blood, sweat and tears to save up 20k (a lot for me) and even though I have a secure authentication scheme for the website, I worry about it getting hacked all the time.

"...there is absolutely no risk"

You have no idea! There's little practical risk in people getting access to my (fictional) ProjectEuler account, but there is absolutely some risk into returning to the same scam twice. Say they exploit PE again and are able to extract more than just password and email, maybe they find a way to get more info about the user's browser, or cookies, or SOMETHING. Anybody foolish enough to continue to navigate to projecteuler.net will suffer the consequences. They'd be better off never returning.

I know the response to this will be, "Oh, you can't possibly expect people to just abandon services that are compromised once" but I absolutely don't expect people to do that. I do it, because my security is worth it to me. Others don't, and this is the sort of thing that happens.

We've no way to really isolate what happened to projecteuler, and no way to now what kind of nasty code got injected into the pages.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/appropriating

I'm quibbling over words too. But the difference to me is that the problem is not that "hacking" (or "hippie culture", "patriot", "environmentalism", or "American") gets used in a context at odds with what its founders would espouse.

It's that a lot of times that secondary (historically speaking) definition then becomes the dominant definition in the public's mind. Whatever mutually exclusive word for that is the one I want to use.

Because, ultimately, it doesn't matter a rat's ass if my local LUG knows the more positive definition of a hacker, if a geeky 8-year old with a penchant for figuring out interesting things to do with computers is surrounded by exposure (news, adults, school, popular media) to the negative definition.
Awesome insight and backstory about one of SV's iconic companies, so thanks for sharing. Maybe the new Alphabet structure, despite similar failures at Sun and other tech companies, is the best option for maximizing innovation even though it also carries a high probability of failure (an "alpha" bet if you will, hah). Or maybe they did devise an ingenious scheme to neutralize the shortcomings of the Planets model, but it would be pretty cool if they didn't and are knowingly exposing themselves to risk and ridicule in the name of innovation.
You could do a21w.xyz instead?

Actually no you can't, I just bought it. :-)
Utilitarianism - OP may have decided that the small amount of damage he's garnered from an IP + MAC leak (both of which are somewhat easily obtainable) was worth informing thousands of people that Microsoft is acting this way.
wave and plus hardly count as moonshots. they're about as boring as projects get.
And T is for Twitter?

This seems like it would be the perfect foundation with which acquire twitter right? A twitter acquisition makes sense under Alphabet in a way it doesn't under Google, no?
It just redirects to bing.com... I don't get it.
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Ask HN: Are you afraid of the “big one” in California?
I'm a developer living in California. While I enjoy many things here, news of overdue earthquakes like this one [1] scares the hell out of me. I really want to settle down, but the idea of paying for a house in a very expensive and earthquake-prone state really troubles me.

I work remotely and as a immigrant I have no family to hold on to. So I can live in another state if I want. Still, I like California (after spending time in several other states) and I guess I'm looking for a reason not to have to leave.

Do you scare of earthquakes? If you do, what keep you from moving already (except for obvious reasons like jobs and family)? If you work remotely and can live anywhere in the US [2], where would you live?

[1] The Really Big One http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one

[2] If you think another country is better, please check out this question instead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037690
I wish this was happening on my machine so I could investigate, but it's not. Searches in Start ask if I want to search the web then open a browser.

I have the default search settings.
This reorganization makes no difference on the financials. The release explicitly stated the company is trading at the conglomerate level.
I'll take one for the team here, I think it's important that people know about this and a one-off disclosure of these details is no big deal for me. However, a repeated one, sent with a unique identifier, from any location I bring my machine is more concerning and I know there are people with even greater privacy concerns than myself who will want to know this.
In my experience, yes: they chafe.
This would require lawmakers to agree on the intent of legislation in addition to its affects, which would be categorically harder because different people may favor a policy for different reasons.

It might be simpler to just sunset every law by default after some period and require lawmakers to periodically renew them - if a majority can't form to support renewal, then it's reasonable to assume the original motivation lacks support. It's also a handy way of nudging updates to the laws to keep up with current times.
Remember the "more wood behind fewer arrows"? That's slim Google. Alphabet is Larry & Sergey missing the more arrows.
Check for connections being made by SearchUI.exe over HTTPS to Bing servers. A tool like TcpView or Wireshark should do the job.

If you really don't have these being made, please share with us your settings, anything you suspect may have disabled these? I've been unable to find anything and I've applied the tweaks from this article, including the GPO changes:

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/30/windows-10-and-privacy/
I don't think it's quite comparable though. This is chopping off companies with essentially no synergies with the core business, which are kept in a single monolithic entity. If anything the association is often negative, with the assumption that the only reason Google owns a business (e.g. Nest, Fiber) is to hoover up people's private information.

Now, there would be insane ways of splitting the company. Say putting building and operating data centers into a separate company from the company using the data centers to run services. Or splitting Android or Chrome into a separate company that'd then be funded by selling the default search engine setting to the highest bidder. If that kind of thing happens, it'd be women and children first into the lifeboats.
Look deeper, it looks like a off-the-shelf WHOIS guard. The registrant is "WHOIStrustee.com Limited". They didn't really have to go many lengths.

It could be anybody who paid a dollar to hide it.
Yes, Alan Kay was very clear that he does not believe inheritance to be a key part of object-oriented programming.

> OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There are possibly other systems in which this is possible, but I’m not aware of them.

For context, he said this in 2003, at the height of Java's popularity.
Here's why I think Google's transformation into Alphabet was not a wise one.

As Google cofounder Larry Page, now CEO of the holding company Alphabet, that will have as its main subsidiary Google, the search company, said earlier today:

>As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” As part of that, we also said that you could expect us to make “smaller bets in areas that might seem very speculative or even strange when compared to our current businesses.” From the start, we’ve always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources we have.

Well, if Google wants to keep spending investor money into "speculative" areas, what could be dumber than reporting its financials as "Google: hugely profitable" and "other random stuff: huge cash drain"? It will just make investors all the more sensitive to the fact that Google's search business is basically what makes money, and everything else is - for now, at least - a huge cash drain.

Raising awareness to Google's - oops, Alphabet's - business unit's individual financials will attract attention of the likes of Carl Icahn, who's raided Ebay in the past, and who'll engage in open challenging of Page and Brin's capital allocation decisions. It will definitely not compensate for the advantages of having Sundar Pichai take on greater responsibilities as Google chief, etc.

Not at all a wise move.
No valid cerificate on https://abc.wtf WTF!