skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes -- the problem with negotiating the trade deal in public is the people you intend to screw over have time to use the democratic process to stop it before you can put it into law.
This looks similar to Orange. Orange has a visual designer, easy data access (SQL, arbitrary files) and lots of widgets, but it's a desktop tool not a library and doesn't standardize the data structures.

http://orange.biolab.si/

http://docs.orange.biolab.si/widgets/rst/index.html
Rudeness is an inconvenience.
'Hidden castle' builder given suspended prison sentence (UK)
Sure, we all start out that way. But by the 3rd or 4th year, you frequently just want to write that thesis and get on to the next thing because you've already advanced the field as much as you're going to as a grad student.

I have a large package of code on sourceforge that consists of my grad school and postdoctoral efforts. If I compare its style to what 2 decades in the industry since has taught me, it's laughable. That said, it is C code, so I occasionally plunder it for algorithms I figured out way back when.
And how often do you think about/are you aware how the fact that you are wearing glasses changes the way people think about you, and the way they interact with you?
I have no clue how to send an email via HN. It doesn't seem to list it in your profile.

Thank you for your kindness. Hopefully anilkg's offer still stands.

Though in the future I'm very interesting in getting my hands on as many old/broken/unused computers as possible so I can refurb them and give them to those in need.
It's not really directly comparable. This is a computational framework which you can use to implement a variety of ML algorithms (or in general numerical computation), so the interface to this is lower-level than Azure ML.

If Azure ML is a bunch of premade sandcastle molds, TensorFlow is a more accurate, faster way to pour sand. You make the mold.
So as long as harrassment isn't sexual or "internal" it's OK. Right.
You can look at Saramo's Twitter mentions of Aro: they're pretty negative, mostly implications that she didn't do any research/is biased/is herself a liar and that her work is a threat to Finland.

The specific quote ("Jessi[kk]a Aro is a shame to YLE and her profession. If the state's broadcaster is spreading things like this, Finland is not a Nordic country" -- my translation) is in response to this article: http://kioski.yle.fi/omat/this-is-what-pro-russia-internet-p...
Since it's in English you can read it and judge yourself if you think the article means she's a shame to journalists and the state broadcaster YLE.

Saramo is in general smart enough not to say things that are quickly disproved when attached to a specific name. He's written some long pieces on rather partisan sites [1] attacking the "Infowar" book (Infosota) and essentially saying that these folks (Aro, Saara Jantunen) are themselves manipulators of opinion and that their work on trolls is a threat to freedom of expression and set on suppressing dissent in Finland.
[1] http://vastavalkea.fi/2015/10/21/infosotarintamalta-ei-mitaa...
And again, without a single reference? Is it a joke?
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My guess is that the bed and breakfasts are permitted, licensed and subject to inspection.

Here's a link from a quick google search:

http://www.co.shasta.ca.us/index/drm_index/eh_index/ehd_prog...

"Permits are required to operate organized camps, hotels, motels, boarding homes, and bed & breakfast establishments in both the County and the cities. The purpose is to administer provisions of the State Housing Law and Health & Safety Code pertaining to the maintenance, sanitation, ventilation, and use or occupancy of residential rental facilities. Inspections are made on an annual basis. An application for a Permit to Operate is to be filed with the EHD along with the appropriate fee."

I don't think it's unreasonable to insist on a difference standard for inspection and compliance once a home is converted into a commercial enterprise.
Amazon is trading at nearly 1000x P/E. Even with their strategy and their scale, I don't see it. I really don't.
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I'm just starting to watch it and it's already trying to manipulate me by talking about child labour and slavery, and giving an example of the terrible things enabled by NAFTA: a lawsuit that it's not even been decided on yet.

It's not even good propaganda, let alone an informative case against trade agreements.
No site is safe from masturbating pervs.

Not even this one.

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American political machine is fueled mostly by big money. Famous names sell and apparently people really like supporting dynasties of leaders.

However, I would claim the biggest reason for these dynasties is just their familiarity as a political convenience, not a nefarious plot to rule the land from here to eternity. Sure, papa Kennnedy had a lot of money and influence and he was a huge contributor to his sons successes. But it seems to me anyone with money can enter the political arena, and one can make that money without first being a crony (although I'm sure it helps).

At least to an outsider there seems to be a huge difference in the basic dynamic if the US is compared to a typical corrupt state with an embedded power clique.

In totalitarian crony states there is a tiny elite who grab it all - in US, as far as I can tell, anyone can become part of that elite if they just have the money. It's not people's democracy but it's dynamic at least.

In US, money owns the government, in Russia, government owns the money?
Well you sure showed them. I wouldn't call anything related to Crimea an invasion either - were the forces stationed there resisting? They switched sides instantly. What about the population, did any insurgents materialize? Seems like what happened really WAS democracy - citizens of one country decided to join another one. Didn't seem to be a problem in Kosovo, but becomes a big problem when Putin is involved.

Speaking of democracy - the biggest thread to democracy in the world occured in 2003, when Iraq was invaded. Now instead of one big asshole in control of his own turf, you have hundreds of tiny assholes that are just as bad, all doing terrible things to become the biggest one. And their ambitions are not limited to Iraq anylonger.
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The issue is that vocal minorities fuck up trade deals. American corn interests can't compete with Brazilian sugar on a cost basis, and you and I might not care too much about sugar tariffs, but guaranteed lobbyists for these minor interests are going to bloat up the trade bill to the point where it isn't even readable by a single person.
Surprising how they had much more street advertising back in the day compared to now.
market conditions are always changing as are regulations. In 2008, they implemented an emergency short sale rule that banned short selling for a select set of stocks. An algorithm would not know what that means, humans have to step in to ensure stocks are not shorted during these times.
If you know of someone in the US doing this, you should advise them to consider registering with the Justice Department.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Agents_Registration_Ac...

The law was amended in the 1960's so that people would get a warning before being prosecuted under it.
This is the obvious answer to the fundamental question of epistemology: would I think what I think if I didn't think the way I think?

The answer is obviously "no", but the next questions that arise from that are more complicated ("What would I think if I thought differently?" "Is there a 'correct' way to think?" "How can I validate my thinking?" "Is there a way to move my thinking towards a more 'correct' way?").
"What would geeks like in a web site? Let's do that!"
- People that do not understand technologists.
You just say, bingo.
In BC people have sued the police and won for "property damage" when the police put chalk on their tires, so I'm pretty sure the same would apply for this sticker.
Leverage FB's graph and require a long held account with a few hundred followers. Datch (now Her), one of the YC companies did this.
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Some part of a key exchange needs to be out-of-band.

Alice communicating to Bob what the hash of her public key is over the phone, in person, or otherwise is good enough. Doing that allows Bob to verify whether or not a specific public key belongs to Alice.

The problem with hosting a key on a website is that it only really works if the domain has an extended validation certificate, i.e. someone proved their identity to their domain registrar. Then things just become a question of how much you trust the CA.
Thanks for the links. Those are some really great resources.

There wasn't anything too connected to my needs at the moment (the retail place is above my budget of $10 in my wallet).

I heard rumour that the DVR program gives people in the program a laptop.

As for the volunteering, I'm trying to get a meeting about volunteering with the organization that's helping me not be homeless (SideWalk). They seem to be in desperate need of tech help from what I've heard. I think I could automate a lot of their tasks so that volunteers could focus on more pressing matters than data entry.
The state of javascript on Android may be poor.

But I think the key here is that if you plan to do heavy processing on phones, you're going to lose one way or another. Each new version of Android has introduced more power saving mechanisms, and I'm not surprised if 6.1 or 6.2 introduces something that restricts how much battery power a pageview is allowed to cost, particularly when the battery is half-empty or worse.

Which is unfair on Discourse.
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This also has the added bonus of being functionally an oligarchy (oligarchies are MUCH more efficient even when the oligarchs disagree!) and really has no relationship to any kind of democracy, representative or otherwise.
You are being unreasonable. The grandparent is correct. Any parker would've left in less than 5 minutes. You would not have even known they were there. If they did not leave and you needed out, you could have simply asked them to leave.

Property rights in this strange absolutist never-to-be-violated interpretation would make a hell of a world. Dropped your wallet? WELL, I CAN'T PICK IT UP FOR YOU BECAUSE THAT'S THEFT OF YOUR PROPERTY.
I'm not talking about media quality like it's something that has just recently gotten bad. I don't think it's gotten worse; but the mass media is also no less important now than in the past.

I realize it's always been an issue; I'm just saying we can't act high and mighty relative to Russia because it's a problem here too.
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Iceland is probably the most promising.

Very tough to live and and work in though for a non-native speaker.
I'm not a lawyer and definitely not a lawyer in "almost everywhere", but it is surely illegal in almost everywhere with western-style property rights? Especially if it left residue after the fact. On the other hand, who is going to take this to court? These are largely one-off tourists who won't have a vested interest in the matter after tomorrow.

People are very possessive about the state of their car's exterior, imagine someone sticking one of these on a high end car.

Also, it sounds to me the area is not actually a "no parking" area - it is at least conceivable the court's interpretation would be different if the claim were true. Residents are painting the curbs themselves.
I'd argue it's already illegal, to me it's vandalism for someone to place a sticker that needs to be scratched off potentially damaging the window.

But who will you complain to? Sausalito Police? Marin County Sheriff?
Forgive my ignorance, but would it not be quite easy to tell the algorithm not to short certain stocks?
"You can look at Saramo's Twitter mentions of Aro"

As I said, I don't know Finnish. Still, thanks for the link to her article.

The quote I like from that article is

"Torsti Sirén, an Adjunct Professor in the National Defence University of Finland:" says "it seems name-calling and slandering usually backfires on the name callers themselves. Finns are conscious and educated people and understand what is propaganda and what isn’t. So let them just go ahead and call other people names, says Sirén."

But that article itself really doesn't contain much real information, compared to the one zorf linked here, which is really interesting.

So you also can't specify any actual "lies" he "spread." I don't think it's wrong to consider that she in fact influences the public opinion, being a journalist. And that the article you link to doesn't give any fact apart of "setting the tone" against "those who don't think like we." It seems that the big part of her "worry" is that not all people on the Russian-speaking forum (!) think the way she would like to. Looks a lot like a longer variant of the post made by sharetea here.
3. Squirrel away as much as possible while you have that high paying job and retire early. When retired, work on open source hardware and software.
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Can a computer pick stocks better?
This is nothing more than a travel blog with way too many photos. I thought there would be some commentary on how the polar bears are struggling to eat since the ice in Hudson Bay is not present for long, or how climate change is altering the habitats of various species of bears.
That's true. The last car I bought new was a Nissan 350Z; part of the appeal was that it is one of the few remaining Nissan automobiles sold in the US that are wholly assembled in Japan, and imported to the US. I opted not to buy another Toyota after not really loving the Celica I owned for a few years, nor being impressed by my dad's Camry; most Toyotas are built in the US.

Both of the Ford vehicles I've owned were manufactured in Kentucky. I believe all of the Ford trucks are US-made, but certainly the big ones are. Though I wouldn't really have a problem buying made-in-Mexico products; the working conditions aren't ideal in Mexico, but they aren't comparable to China, in terms of human rights violations.
I don't know why, but this headline sounds like it's a device to remember something. Like "Every good boy deserves fudge." Like someone was trying to remember "SSMFSD" and they came up with "Sexual selection makes female songbirds drab."
Ugh shit sorry. Taking this discussion offline.
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If you are referring to the third picture ("Gedächtniskirche"), this is intentional. The church is kept in this partially restored state as a monument against war.
Perhaps there are more alternatives to neon signs now? TV, Internet, etc.
Unfortunately, most companies think that they own you 24/7 as soon as they put you on salary. To them, you are getting paid for it.

A guy at my job got written up for not responding to emails on vacation, even though he had an autoresponder directing people to his boss, and told everyone ahead of time that he'd be dark for a few days. Management's excuse is that you are 24/7 unless it's otherwise defined in your employment contract, and they won't ever put set hours into an employment contract.
Wow, you guys are 10 minutes away from my house! Do you plan to have a Summer 2016 Internship program? I would be suuuuper interested! :)
I tried going through the site and also the comments but couldn't wrap my head around what this library actually is. It sounds awesome based on the response/comments. Can anyone explain this to a layman?
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I don’t have any links. That’s not the sort of thing I keep track of.

That said, I’ve spoken with a batch of folks who’ve explained their tricks for getting their stories bumped up.

Just from a quick search, though, it doesn’t seem like such discussion is hidden: http://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-really...
I'd like to know where "here" is.
>is a cancer survivor (or any other unwarranted personal detail that's clearly being shoehorned in) I'd find it very off-putting

I would think that cancer survivor has a significantly more developed sense of awareness and mindfulness. Surviving * is a deeply profound experience that changes people. I don't understand why that would be off-putting to you.
The train would glide the aircraft to the mesosphere (50 km or 31 miles) and than rocket to orbit? So you would need 62+ miles of track going hundreds of miles an hour at 45 degree angle with the tow rope?
That... Was not... My experience there...

But kudos to the deep learning guys for overcoming that potential energy barrier NVIDIA couldn't surmount on their own...
I'd say tensor is exactly as confusing as vector -- vectors are just elements of some vector spaces, and you get a list of numbers by choosing a basis of that vector space. Similarly, tensors are just elements of a tensor product of some vector spaces (or modules), and you get a multidimensional array by choosing bases in the factors.
I would normally agree with you, but I've seen first hand this not being the case. People get starry eyed over "neat" products or cultures, or they might be burnt out from toxic cultures from previous employers, enough to ignore being taken serious advantage of.
This seems to contradict another recent study [1] that found that Vitamin C promoted cancer (melanoma) growth.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/1...
Your exclusion of cities containing international airports seems odd to me. You're excluding most major cities. You're basically saying there aren't many solid middle class jobs in the rural areas of the South. I think it's generally true, outside of the South as well, that urban areas have more middle class jobs.

I'm not trying to invalidate whatever experience you and your household are having.

I'm just saying there are tons of tech jobs in the South. Many Southern cities are in the top 25 cities/metro areas for software jobs, e.g.,
Austin, TX; the DC suburbs in VA and MD; Jacksonville, FL; Raleigh, NC. And while they typically don't show up on lists, I know first hand that cities like Mobile, AL; Huntsville, AL; Tampa, FL; Richmond, VA; Nashville, TN; Knoxville, TN and Atlanta, GA have healthy tech sectors as well.

I find it mildly ridiculous when people act like you can't find a good programming job outside of West Coast / Chicago / Boston / NYC.
Landlords grow richer in their sleep, without working, risking, or economizing. The increase in the value of land, arising as it does from the efforts of an entire community, should belong to the community and not to the individual who might hold title. -- John Stuart Mill

> In the long run, the property owner is always able to claim all of the surplus from the renter.

Which to me is what's broken about land and other natural resources as private property. If the spirit and intent of a free market is to reward people for working hard, for innovation, and for solving problems, then this is the opposite. It rewards people for just sitting on their wealth. That a finite sum of money can buy you an infinite source of income is antithetical to free market principles.

> This is not a free market, BTW. Land is monopoly.

The only mitigating factor is property taxes, which as a stand-in for ground rents that geolibertarians and Georgists argue for. By the way, the latter are the more honest of the libertarians, as most other schools of libertarianism especially the popular form continually consider property taxes theft.

I wish more libertarians understood the Matthew Effect as well as they did supply and demand.
With what criteria can you unite the two Americas as one continent, and consider Europe separate from Asia?
I have to wonder why more residents aren't trying to milk money out of the tourists. Isn't that what is supposed to happen around every tourist attraction?

If I lived there, I might just pave a few extra parking spaces into my property and charge $5 for first 30 minutes and $5 each additional 60 minutes thereafter. Buy lemonade, hiking maps, souvenir magnets, and postcards from the kiosk. 10%-off coupons for checking in on social media. Hey! Hey! Hey mister; hey lady! You wanna buy Hollywood Sign t-shirt? Hollywood Sign keychain fob? How about shopped photo with your name in place of the real sign? Don't just take selfies! Everybody takes selfies! Buy something no one else has; buy this volume-printed diorama of the sign and surrounding park, signed by the artist! Limited edition!

Whenever I have been a tourist, the single best way to make me want to leave and never return is to subject me to a continuous barrage of sales pitches for useless attraction-related crap. Example: every square centimeter of Disney World. That's like the ultimate goal of merchandising, when it all sort of collapses into this state where everything becomes an advertisement for itself, and everything you buy subtly encourages you to buy more, or maybe just put all your cash in a paper envelope and deposit it into a slot under the Walt and Mickey statue.

That's how you ruin an attraction. You don't just make it secret and exclusive; that only makes people want it more. Instead, you relentlessly try to squeeze every last drop of money out of it. If you really want the people to stop coming, your Holy Grail is the online review that says, "Not worth the $10 parking space in some guy's front yard. Locals aggressively sell touristy crap, and the sign itself seems kind of cheap and pathetic from up close."

Of course, the downside is that unless you have some sort of "identify friend or foe" system in place, you get a dozen sales pitches every time you walk from your own driveway to your own house.
"So You've Been Publicly Shamed", by Jon Ronson, and "The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction", by Pat Shipman, are my two best reads this year (that were published in 2015). The first is a great analysis of the phenomenon (usually Twitter-based) of shame-storms, and the second is about the far, far older phenomenon of one invasive species driving a closely related one to extinction. Both very well done.
Well the truth is that for some firms it is for about 99.9% of all trades.

Renaissance Technologies founder Jim Simmons is famous for saying they didn't override the algorithm.

In practice most HFT firms do a mix of both. The algos will do the vast bulk of the trading but you have human traders monitoring algos to do clean ups for cases where the algo gets "stuck". What defines "stuck" really depends on the sophistication of the algo and the firm itself.

Some algo's, such as internalizers's for crossing bought flow are so simple that there probably doesn't need to be much over site at all.

Market making is very similar, with the exception of a flash crash where they might pull out, market making algos should just run themselves.
Does it support OpenCL and thus Intel integrated and discrete AMD GPUs?
When you say liberal, do you mean liberal but still will not do gay marriages?
Squished human beings, but good for some cargo. Would be cool if we could shoot fuel and metal into space, but the heat would be through the roof through the first layer of atmosphere.
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Americans over 30 are more miserable than they’ve ever been
This could be especially good in the summertime if you have one of those ice-based storage air conditioners.
Might one conclude that getting hung up on one opinion from a large group of people projected forward in time is... not very useful?
I recommend to read Warren Buffet or his teacher Benjamin Graham.
Buffet uses a computer, but only for Bridge playing.
Photoshop can try to do this with "Align layers". I've found it to be pretty good.
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